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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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The Moustached Kingfisher was known by only three samples– one female “collected” in the 1920’s, the other two females “collected” in the 1950’s, according to an Audubon Magazine article. How it raised its chicks? Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew? Where and how it gathered food?

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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Now, there is a new study that has significant advantages of the Bumpus study, though the latter will still be useful in teaching about evolution because of its limitations and the questions it raises. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time.

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Smattering Sunday

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To determine whether it was the Ami or kibble in general I snatched some samples of Wellness and she had the same issue. Try not to think about the "meat" being "raised" and the "it." And then it proceeds to: "None of these questions, however, make any consideration of whether it is wrong to kill animals for human consumption."

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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No doubt he reads that bio and goes “It’s good, but what I really want to do is kill some f ing birds” Linda doesn’t waste any time in deciding which camp Chris belongs to. How it raised its chicks? The preferred alternative to collecting a bird is to take photos and a blood sample. Its natural longevity?

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Johnson is collecting myths about owls from cultures around the world and is also presiding over a 12-year Burrowing Owl Project that seeks to collect DNA samples, vocalizations, morphological data and map locations for every Burrowing Owl subspecies the world over. They are also hunted.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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didn’t sample enough taxa to resolve these questions, so the deep relationships among these groups will need further work. Some of our longstanding questions now have really fascinating answers, and if others are still open or if new ones have been raised, we now have greater knowledge and freer imaginations with which to pursue them.

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